Privacy Policy

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personal information may include, but is not limited to:

• Contact Info: First name, last name, email address, phone number, company name.
• Candidate Data (Staff Augmentation): CV/Resume, GitHub profile, LinkedIn profile, salary expectations, and employment history.
• Client Data: Project requirements, technical specifications, and business contact details.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

3. How We Use Your Information

Maccodify uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including software development and staff augmentation.
• To manage your account and your access to the Service.
• To perform obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To contact you via email, telephone, or other electronic means regarding updates or informational communications related to the Service.
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.
• For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes with your consent.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

We will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis for doing so under the GDPR. The lawful bases will depend on the specific purpose for which we process your data. Typically, we rely on the following:

• Contract: The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (e.g., delivering a software project).
• Legitimate Interest: The processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by Maccodify, provided that your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., marketing, network security).
• Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to a newsletter).
• Legal Obligation: The processing is necessary for us to comply with the law (e.g., keeping tax records).

5. Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party service providers to facilitate our Service (e.g., Cloud hosting providers like AWS/Azure, project management tools like Jira, email services).
• With Staff Augmentation Clients: If you apply for a position through our staff augmentation service, we may share your CV and relevant details with our clients for potential placement.
• For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

6. International Data Transfers

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Maccodify will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Under GDPR and UK law, you have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• The right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

10. Data Security

We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: contact@maccodify.com
• By visiting this page on our website: maccodify.com/contact-us